Re: disposal of "lead" protective aprons (as used in med

[Lerai Frank <lerai@scs.unr.edu>]

I send our lead pigs to Medi-Ray Ince, 150 Marbledale Road, Tuckahoe, NY
10707.  We have been doing this for about 5 years.  They sent us the boxes
and even the tape to strap it shut. The pigs have to be surveyed and
defaced.  It is part of  the NEN recycling program.  It is a little pricy to
send them, but I alway send them UPS ground .

I went to a recycler to see if  they would except them.  The vendor extracted
the plastic container from the lead.  He said it would cost him more to do
the extraction process then it would be to recycle the lead so he would not
except them that way.

If you need any more information e-mail me.
LeRai


Ron Amoling wrote:

> This also brings up the issue of disposing of the little lead pigs
> that research radionuclides are shipped in.
>
> At this small facility, it's easy enough to monitor each pig, remove
> it from it's plastic outer container, and bring it to a local scrap
> yard.  Surely the larger universities couldn't do this on a large
> scale?  What are places with 100's of research labs doing with their lead
> pigs?  Tossing them as hazardous waste would be prohibitively
> expensive, and the vendors do not make it easy to return the pigs to
> them.
>
> Ron Amoling
> Joslin Diabetes Center
> amolingr@joslab.harvard.edu
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